. The Street railway journal . the station and adjoining itsold car house, the Philadelphia TractionCompany has erected a new car housewith a capacity of from 400 to 500 walls of the car house are of brick,one story in height and surmounted by amonitor roof, with a span of 100 ft. Thefloors are of concrete. To assist in making tests on the line,Chief Engineer Uhlenhaut, of the Philadelphia TractionCompany, has designed a testing car, No. 999, shown inFig. 2. This car has somewhat the appearance of an ordi-nary eighteen foot closed car, but has closed platformswith folding steps, so th
. The Street railway journal . the station and adjoining itsold car house, the Philadelphia TractionCompany has erected a new car housewith a capacity of from 400 to 500 walls of the car house are of brick,one story in height and surmounted by amonitor roof, with a span of 100 ft. Thefloors are of concrete. To assist in making tests on the line,Chief Engineer Uhlenhaut, of the Philadelphia TractionCompany, has designed a testing car, No. 999, shown inFig. 2. This car has somewhat the appearance of an ordi-nary eighteen foot closed car, but has closed platformswith folding steps, so that persons will not mistake it for anordinary car and attempt to board it. The main panel anddashes of the car are painted in Tuscan red, a color not 6o6 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 10. used on any other car of the company, to further dis-tinguish it. An interior view of the car is shown in Fig. is fitted with a testing table, carrying a complete equip-ment of voltmeters, ammeters, watt recorders, speed indi-. FIG. 3.—INTERIOR OF TESTING CAR—PHILADELPHIA TRACTION CO. cators, instruments for determining grades, the height ofthe trolley wire, etc. There are no benches, but chairs areprovided for the engineers. The car is equipped withtrolley and motors, so that it can be used as a motor car,or it can be attached as a trailer to another car. It islighted with ten incandescent lamps. terra cotta trimmings. The window sills are of creamcolor sandstone. The roof will be slate supported by irontrusses, and will be provided with a large lantern, afford-ing good light and ventilation. The foundation of the north end of the build-ing rests on solid rock which comes within sixfeet of the surface, while at the south end it wasnecessary to drive piling to a depth of fifty piling is cut off at mean low water andcovered with a layer of concrete two feet thickon which the foundations for the machines arebuilt up of Conshohocken bluestone. The generalarrangement o
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